Workmen's advocate., 1887-01-29
CONNECTICUT WORKERS. Extract Prem Commissioner Iladlcy'S
 Report.
ilOu RS OF LABOR.

or less; ll,6i1, or a little over twenty two per cent, from tifty-iivc to fifty nine hours; 31,033, or considerably over tifty-siX per cent, were employed either fifty and a half or sixty hours-that is e say, ten hours day; while the re- magnder, I0602, or sixteen per cent, had an average working day of more than sixty hours.
 Nearly all the cases of steady employ ment for more than ten hours daily in tho (aciordS of the State, were found in tLe textile industry, although there were many other establishments reporting more or less overtime. The longest hours reported in work of any kind were among the rbers-ninety-two hours weekly. Several outdoor empIoyments, with exceptionally long hours-for in- stance, street-car drivers made no re- port,
 Some of the mineral industries, like lime burning, report very long, though usually somewhat irregular, hours. The paper mills run for exceedingly long hours, though with such relays that com paratively few of the hands work over ten hours daily. The regular working time of the bakers sometimes has been twelve hours q day, and this is consider ably less than it was d few years ago.
 On the other hand, the cigarmakers work but eight hours day; decided reduction in recent years, the last stage of which was accomplished in May of | this year. This was the only trade where the attempt to secure all eight hour day, which was to have been widely | undertaken, was actually carried into effect. A number of other trades report shrht reductions in recent years.
 The difference in time between the eastern counties, more than half of tho hands reported are employed over ten | hours daily. This is, of course, due to the large proportion of textile mills in this district. The largest percentages of short hours are reported from MiddleseN, New Haven, and Fairfield counties.
 The proportion of rcry short hours is greatest in the small establishments; Oth- erwise, the difference is not particularly noticeable between establishments of diff ferent sizes. The largest percentage of very long hours is found in establish ments of medium size, say between 50 and 200 hands
 Of establishments paying weekly, only one per cent, run over sixty hours a week; of those paying fortnightly, seven per cent; of those paying monthly, thirty two per cent. Or, to put the same result in another form: of O,Sl2 hands employed less than ten hours a dGy, G,21H, or thirty per cent, were paid monthly; of 33,S10 hands employed ten hours a day, I2,3i9, or thirty-six and one-half per cent, were paid monthlyi while of 10, iGJ hands employed regular ly more than ten hours q day, 0,le5, or fully ninety per cent, were paid monthly.
 Twelve per cent of the men, twenty. two per cent. of the women, and thirty four and half per cent. of the children are employed more than ten hours daily On the other hand, thirty per cent. of the men. twenty-eght per cent. of the women, and only eleven per cent of the children, are employed less than ter hours daily.
 We thus reach the conclusion thai monthly payments, long hours, and chilC labor go hand in hand. This fact is 1T one sense precisely what might be expect ed; yet the results are so noticeable thai they will bear repeating. First, practic ally none of the weekly payment mill have normal working day of over ter hours. Second leaving out cases O fortnightly or mixed payment minor ity of men, majority of women, and ; two-thirls majority of children, are paiC monthly. Third, less than one-eighth O the men, but more than one-fifth of th' women, and more than one-third of th' children are employed regulerly over tel hours a day. Fourth, the counties ant industries which show the largest pro portion of weekly payment show thu smallest proportions Of women and chil dren employed, and riee tersa.